We are delighted to see that two of our books are finalists for this year’s British Fantasy Awards.
Fight Like A Girl 2, a finalist in Best Anthology, is edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall who live in Ammanford. The book was originally commissioned as the second in a series by another publisher, but we picked it up after that company sadly ceased trading.
The original Fight Like A Girl anthology was inspired by internet trolls complaining that novels in which women undertook active combat roles were ‘unrealistic’. A group of women science fiction and fantasy writers set out to celebrate women fighters. While book 2 does contain some traditional combat stories, Roz and Jo also asked contributors to show women fighting in other ways.
The book was also a finalist for Best Collected Work in this year’s British Science Fiction Association Awards. It lost out to a charity anthology raising money for Palestine.
The Green Man’s War by Juliet E McKenna is a finalist in Best Fantasy Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award).
This is the seventh book in the hugely successful Green Man series of contemporary fantasies. They feature the adventures of Daniel Mackmain, a carpenter who works on a small country estate. Because his mother was a dryad (a tree spirit), Dan is able to see supernatural creatures, and he has been recruited by The Green Man to help solve problems where the supernatural world and the mortal world interact.
Over the years Dan has made several friends with similar talents, but has also made many enemies. In this book his foes decide that they have had enough of him, and band together to put an end to his activities.
Several books in the Green Man series have been award finalists in the past. The sixth book in the series, The Green Man’s Quarry, won Best Novel in the British Science Fiction Association Awards in 2024.
The winners of this year’s British Fantasy Awards will be announced at the British Fantasy Society’s annual conference, FantasyCon, in Brighton in October. This year FantasyCon is also the World Fantasy Convention, so the award ceremony will be attended by top fantasy writers and editors from around the world.
A full list of the finalists for all of the 2025 British Fantasy Awards can be found here.
